Strategic Sales Compensation Operations Specialist

Prodapt; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Prodapt is seeking a seasoned Sales Compensation Operations Analyst to run monthly compensation cycles across in-scope segments with accuracy and timeliness. This IC role sits at the core of pay readiness, with responsibilities spanning credits, adjustments, and payout hand-offs to payroll.

The ideal candidate brings 8–12 years in compensation, deep ICM platform experience, and strong data analytics skills.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years in Sales Compensation, Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) or commissions operations, with deep hands-on plan-execution expertise.
• Strong command of incentive-plan mechanics — components, thresholds, accelerators, caps, crediting, close-out and adjustment processes.
• Hands-on familiarity with ICM / compensation platforms (e.g., Varicent, Xactly, SAP Commissions, Anaplan Incentive, or equivalent).
• Deep understanding of the monthly comp cycle, pay-readiness/payroll cutoffs, and preliminary-check / variance controls.
• Advanced data skills — expert Excel; comfort with large calculation datasets, reconciliation and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI).
• Experience operating compensation governance (change control, review boards) and building audit-ready, controlled processes.
• Excellent analytical, documentation and communication skills; credible as the escalation authority for complex compensation questions and disputes.

Responsibilities

• Execute monthly crediting across in-scope segments with full traceability.
• Perform close-out, FGA loading, limiter management and manual credits/adjustments under maker-checker.
• Support prelims variance checks and reconciliation before pay.
• Investigate and resolve compensation inquiries per runbook.
• Prepare CRB case inputs and implement approved CCB changes.
• Publish seller statements and support the payout-file hand-off to payroll.
• Adopt comp agents as waves go live; route exceptions to the expert pod.
• Maintain SOPs, controls evidence and exception logs.

Skills

Sales compensation expertise

Incentive compensation management (ICM

Plan-execution

Excel advanced

Tableau

Power BI

Data analysis

Audit-ready processes

Documentation

Communication skills

Payroll knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or related discipline

Tools

Varicent

Xactly

SAP Commissions

Anaplan Incentive

Job description

Prodapt is seeking a seasoned Sales Compensation Operations Analyst to run monthly compensation cycles across in-scope segments with accuracy and timeliness. This IC role sits at the core of pay readiness, with responsibilities spanning credits, adjustments, and payout hand-offs to payroll.

The ideal candidate brings 8–12 years in compensation, deep ICM platform experience, and strong data analytics skills.